| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A gathering of gentlemen : the founding and early years -- The lure of the West : exploration and exodus -- A widening sphere -- The American woodsman comes calling : John James Audubon and the academy -- The American Golgotha : defining race in the early republic -- Gorillas grab the limelight : Paul Du Chaillu, John Cassin, and the professionalization of science -- The marvelous bipedal masterpiece : religion, politics, and public display -- Fossils, finders, and feuds : Leidy, Hayden, Cope, and Marsh -- "I must have fame" : Robert Peary explores the Arctic -- Early man at the academy -- Volcanoes to caverns : exploring for minerals -- Academy expeditions, 1928 to 1960 -- Dioramas defy the Great Depression -- Science and celebrity : the academy goes Hollywood -- Visions in microscopes : water quality and the environment -- Regrouping and looking forward in the postwar years -- Reaching out : festivals and friends -- The academy's "glorious enterprise" completes its second century. |
| Subject |
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- History.
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. |
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History. |
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Natural history -- Research -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Natural history -- Research. |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Natural history. |
| Added Author |
Stroud, Patricia Tyson.
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Purcell, Rosamond Wolff.
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| ISBN |
9780812243802 alkaline paper |
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0812243803 alkaline paper |
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